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September Wine Club
The magazine The Drinks Business recently published a list of the ten most annoying descriptions of wine. I agree with…
Proud to have been nominated as one of the Independent’s top 10 wine clubs!
The Independent selected their top 10 best wine clubs and this is what they had to say about The Spectator:…
August Mini-Bar
Four wines, four different countries, four different grapes. All these come from Adnams of Southwold, the -admirable brewers, who also…
August Wine Club
This month we have the first full offer from Swig, the adventurous young merchants from west London. You wouldn’t go…
August Mini-Bar
Mark Cronshaw at The Wine Company of Colchester has helped me assemble half a dozen luscious wines. They are pricier…
July Wine Club
Recent American research shows, as if we didn’t know, that wine tasting is unreliable and scatter-brained. Wines that taste feeble…
July Mini-Bar
Gordon Ramsay is a terrible fraud. Friends of ours lived near him, and one Christmas their little boy made mince…
A complete and utter fraud
In a perfect world, Kevin Rudd would not be campaigning for election but visiting an analyst. Therapy is the treatment…
June Wine Club
The other day I was chatting to Mimi Avery, of the famous Bristol wine importing firm. She said that she…
June mini-bar
I was lucky enough to attend the 650th anniversary dinner for the Vintners’ Company last month. Some of the greatest…
May Wine Club
Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the…
May Mini-bar
The prices of the top Bordeaux reds are down this year, though you can still pay hundreds of pounds a…
April Wine Club
I have been enjoying Growing Up in Restaurants by James Pembroke (Quartet), which is largely autobiographical, but also covers the history…
April Mini-bar
These are some of the most luscious wines I’ve ever offered to readers. They are all Spanish, from The Haciendas…
March Wine Bar
The other day I had one of those awkward moments. We were guests at dinner. ‘You’re a wine writer!’ said…
Leveson: Don’t let the state frighten you
If David Cameron had any sense, he would stand up in the Commons and say “I am withdrawing the…
March Mini-bar
Adam Brett-Smith of Corney & Barrow says this offer contains two of the least expensive fine wines in the world.…
March Wine Club
An excellent selection of European wines this week from Private Cellar, the first-rate East Anglian merchants who sell loads of…
February Mini-bar
The annual offer of Château Musar is here, and The Wine Company of Colchester has again given us some very…
February Mini-bar
Around twice a year, I visit the Swig world HQ (an office in Chiswick, west London) and taste some of…
February Wine Club
Our new offer comes — this always sounds like a misprint — from FromVineyardsDirect, the terrifically popular wine merchants which…
January Mini-bar
Some people think that Southwold, that tranquil seaside town in Suffolk, is hopelessly middle class. So what? I love it.…
January Wine Club
I’ve always been baffled by the French attitude to wine. Either they drink too much or too little. When I…
Radio daze
There are larger issues at stake here than punishing a silly prank
December Wine Club
A question I’m often asked is -whether a particular wine is ‘worth it’. The answer, generally, is ‘no’ if the…
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